Re: FLASH: Need creative advice for job proposal

[Alan Wilson]

Cheri Harder and Bob Shuster posted this idea yesterday and it really didn't

give the effect of motion when tested. It wound up looking like a box

floating on top of a static window. Maybe Paul Kilgor has the right idea

when he suggested zooming in on the image to give the effect of perspective.

I'm not sure how to accomplish this without enlarging the image in a MC

because I think it will play hell on the processor. I'm pretty sure that

enlarging the window as it pans across the static photo in the background

will not work as it will wind up just looking like a box on a static photo

getting bigger. What I need is a Quicktime VR effect, but done in flash as a

movie clip.


A few other people suggested lifting frames from a video and importing as

picts. This would be the best solution visually but I'm fairly sure it would

be too big to download at 56k and it wouldn't work smoothly without a fast

processor. In my mind, the "movie" of the skyline would have to be at least

400x250 (inset into a 640x480) to get the effect the client is looking

for... that's a lot of data to stream in Flash then expect the average

machine to keep up. I wish I could pursue it with some testing but I don't

have the footage laying around to try it.


Thanks everyone, you have some great ideas.. enough to keep the job

possibility alive for awhile longer.

-- 

Alan Wilson

Lightstorm Studio

Freelance Web Design

mailto:

lightstormjps [dot] net

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From: "JGL" <infodesignthenet [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 10:05:49 -0800

>

To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: RE: FLASH: Need creative advice for job proposal

> 

>> "Over 60% of the properties you

> see are managed by ____________".

> 

> Maybe like others suggested - load 1 image but make it an  "auto scrolling

> left to right" MC (even have a reverse loop - left-right then right-left).

> Create a layer above the layer that has your clip, draw and fill a rectangle

> the size of your stage, cutout a fixed square or rectangle to show the city

> image from the previous layer moving from left to right. Add some chopper

> sound and boom!

> 

> Should be fairly simple to test . .

> 

> JGL

> dEsignthenet

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> 

> For most realistic results you'd need to zoom in and out, which would

> require a very good qualty image. Just moving accross the scen would look

> like you were.....just moving accross the scene! i.e. it would look like a

> static image.

> 

> Just a thought. Sure it can be done successfully though.

> 

> Regards,

> 

> Paul.

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>

From: Tom Green <tgreen17home [dot] com>

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:00:08 -0500

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Need creative advice for job proposal

> 

> Hillman Curtis does it quite neatly by lifting out sequential frames from

> digital video and exporting them out as a series of picts.

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> You know, www.hillmancurtis.com has some examples of video stuff in

> flash. I'm not sure it would tell you how to accomplish it, but his

> examples there are insanely SMALL, like, some of the ones that have all

> kinds of bitmaps, etc. are only 30K. Maybe if you look through some of

> his stuff and his site, you'll come across some tips on making small

> files with bitmaps, and even movies.

> Maybe this will help...?

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> Why not one large photo of the city skyline, then just move it past

> the viewing window?  That's how I would handle it.   You'll have to

> decide how to handle the image itself (vectorizing it vs. leaving it

> as a bitmap) but doing this to one shot seems a lot less daunting

> than a lot of frames!   - Bob Shuster

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>

From: "Cheri Harder" <chericahome [dot] com>

> Organization: Advantage Web Solutions

>

Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 20:35:14 -0800

>

To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Need creative advice for job proposal

> 

> Or, maybe better yet, move the viewing window over the scene.  That way you

> aren't "moving" the bitmap and it won't be so processor-hungry.  Or even

> several successively loaded bitmaps that change as your viewing window goes

> off of one it's replaced by another...the viewing window being a mask inside

> a graphic of the edges of the helicopter door/window....the bitmaps could be

> successive clips from their video footage, just not very many of them...

> 



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